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Springtime conjures nightmares and miracles

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By Margaret Simons
| The Saturday Paper Verified
Spring is here. Illusions of control are about to be overturned. The weeds will grow faster than the plants. The pests will hatch and rampage. I will be running behindhand, plagued by the feeling that whatever I am doing, I should be doing something else. We garden to tame or modify the wilderness, to create a buffer between our homes and the great outdoors – the wildernesses of city suburbs and the untamed bush.
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Where will Victoria’s royal commission lead?

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By Margaret Simons
| The Saturday Paper Verified
In the week of Jacinta Allan's ousting as Victorian premier, Labor insiders reveal what they expect out of the royal commission into the construction sector. Jacinta Allan and Daniel Andrews (centre) inspect Metro Tunnel works in 2020. The nature of corruption is now top of mind for Victorian Labor insiders, as names of potential royal commissioners are workshopped for the inquiry that new premier Ben Carroll committed to this week, promising “exhaustive terms of reference”.
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The lichen and the damage done

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By Margaret Simons
| The Saturday Paper Verified
The first rain for weeks is sweeping across the city and I am watching the lichen on the roof. It has been growing for years in the dips of the Colorbond. For a long while, I was quite pleased to see it. I thought of it as a reassuring confirmation of the persistence of life. How remarkable, even admirable, I thought, that this weird crusty, flaky looking thing should grow in acne-like clusters on metal – presumably feeding off nothing more than dust. Well done, lichen. It was pretty, in its way.
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